The field of robotics is an ever-growing one and one of the sectors in which the field is growing the fastest is healthcare robotics. Part of the reason for this is that the machines that are being produced now can simply do things that a majority of human beings cannot.
Even when we are talking about areas that are still usually done by a doctor or nurse or researcher, robotics is coming in handy as an aid. That is the main reason why we are seeing record sales in the healthcare robotics industry as more and more areas get covered by this new technology.
Robots in this day and age are doing all kinds of medical procedures that on occasion even include removing cancerous tumors. Of course, not all healthcare robotics deal with the most dire of health issues. The best part about this relatively new field is that it can also take care of areas that are somewhat mundane yet still vital to the patients.
One of the companies that deals with healthcare robotics, Hansen Medical deals quite a bit with a specific area of expertise known as flexible robotics. This particular area of the field can be used for quite a few different remedies including patients who have need of a catheter.
To this end, Hansen Medical just named Hartford Hospital as a Center of Excellence for the Sensei X Robotic Catheter System. By being named a Center of Excellence, doctors at Hartford Hospital will be able to train aspiring experts at their hospital about the use of flexible robotics in an electrophysiology lab setting.
This Center of Excellence will begin operation next month and will serve as the training ground in the area of flexible robotics for most of the Northeast corridor of the United States. The hospital has also recently acquired its second Sensei X Robotic Catheter System, making it one of the top robotic heart treatment centers in the US.
Hartford Hospital's Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Dr. Steven Zweibel is a fan of the device, saying it has not only improved heart operations but has allowed the hospital to perform more surgeries as well.
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Edited by
Jennifer Russell
